Posts Tagged ‘TPP’

Last week (yeah I know, this post is a little late) was pretty stressed out with a looming deadline but not-at-all-that-late on Friday afternoon, everything came together and all my assigned test cases had been executed, yay!

The depressing stuff (a.k.a “:(“)

A study has concluded that the “Non-Practicing Entities” formerly known as patent trolls costs money, a whole lot of money… who’d have guessed? …

And facebook did yet again what any popular service for which the “users” doesn’t pay a dime; changed their service without any warning, bu giving every “user” a facebook.com email address and making it the default contact email.

It sure smells a lot like the “Man-in-the-Middle” attack the previously linked to, outraged, post makes it out to be.

Then again, I can’t really understand how people can still get outraged by any of the shit facebook does. And its not like there aren’t other reasons for wanting out. Coincidentally, masses of people abandoning fb might be the only way to get them to stop frakking around with the “users” so much.

(And yes, I have consistently marked users up using quotes, because as Andrew Lewis so eloquently put it: If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.)

If you are an Apple user, and you are using Orbitz to book hotels, please be aware that if you just boot into Windows for a quickie to do the bookings, you may save a buck or two…

The more I think about it, the more I feel that no matter what the IETF decides, web servers (coughApache*cough*nginx*cough*LightHTTPd*cough*) should just go right ahead and implement HTTP Error Code 451 anyway. Pretty sure I will make a point to be able to serve such a response if I ever dabble with web-apps again anyhow. Because people getting angry with ISPs, which are just following the law, is fruitless. If people instead direct their anger towards the people guilty of the poor laws (i.e. politicians deep in the pockets of certain four-letter-acronym organizations, most of which having headquarters in the US) I imagine things could begin to change.

(Yes, that would mean having to vote for someone else and potentially get screwed over (depending on your political views and what you believe to be the “right” way to conduct a society) in other pieces of policy)

The funnier stuff (a.k.a “:D”)

Pontus showed me a cool SSH shell called ZSSH with built-in capability to transfer files, within the shell. Yes, I know of scp, but I also know what a pain in the ass it is with one-time-logins.

A cool (perhaps not very useful, but very visually pleasing) tool is gource. It parses version control commits, and presents them visually (see PHP, Python, OpenOffice.org, or why not MySQL for visuals)

Finally, while I was working at Gnutiken, I had the good fortune of sitting next to Andreas Nilsson, and I know I say this about a lot of my friends, but he’s one of the nicest guy I know (I guess I have truly lucked out with my friends), but there’s one thing where he and I don’t see eye to eye.

As a designer, user interface/experience wizard etc. his stance is that the concept of files in a computer must be eradicated from the user experience.

I disagree, and this post goes a way better job at explaining my thoughts than I would ever had been able to.

Before closing the book on the subject of copyright for this time… If you’re a photographer (well, I guess, as we’ve seen with Apple/Samsung, this applies if you are a hardware designer as well): don’t take photographs which are too similar to other photographs…

Educational Games

This game was both fun and, at least to me, innovative. Just a wee bit too slow for my netbook, but a real treat if it could inspire someone to start programming

I don’t really remember what I was looking for when I find this, but I was almost immediately intrigued. Now, I had to read through that first paragraph on their web page a couple of times, and then still read the two excellenttutorials before I figured out what I could use it for, and I think I can express that shorter: look at logfiles, if X happens, execute command Y.

It is a little more complex than that, like if X happens, but A doesn’t happen within a specified time window following X etc.

I think the wording of the text regarding governments is a bit inflammatory and could probably be misconstrued, deliberately or otherwise, and turned into a weapon against the initiative itself.

Personally I’d have preferred either to have the wording changed, seeking instead to inspire and educate (yes I know, presumptuous of me to believe I hold the truth) our fellow citizens, or at the very least change the wording into something less misinterpretable.

We should hold those we have elected to govern us at higher standards, instead of not reacting at all, letting them off the hook as it were, whenever they err on the side of dishonesty and/or corruption.

I don’t feel I can really put my signature on that text as it currently stands, but I think I’ll remix it to something I can stand for.

If nothing else, the most interesting idea I got out of it, was the addition of “points of interests” links and IP addresses (see the github page for that). There are some services on there which further makes me unable to put my name on that document, but hoarding IP addresses, and mapping them to domain names, is interesting…

More on this later, when I have thought some more about it.

Links

Jesus Frakking Christ — apparently, if you are one of those strange people who mind if other people look over your shoulder, you are also a terrorist…

I guess this could have a positive impact on people who don’t hear so well (or at all) and beyond that, for anyone who needs and wants to type fast. Of course, it’ll probably be harder to learn than dvorak…

What do you do, in Vim, if you’ve just happened to undo the last half hours worth of work? You redo it